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When You Should Not Listen to Your Customers

The Product Coalition

To assist with the practicalities of product management, I propose segmenting user needs in a way that differentiates between the expressed needs that people volunteer, the unexpressed needs they do not communicate, and the unrecognised and potential needs they cannot accurately describe themselves.

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When going fast is not the same as going somewhere

The Product Coalition

A view into Ikea’s integrated activity system. Strains of core activities that run through the organization and stabilize a system just like reinforcing rods made of steel. For instance, the razor company aligned their activities with P&G’s well respected advertising and customer research activity system.

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Unlocking the Power of the Blue Ocean Strategy: A Comprehensive Guide for SaaS Businesses [2023]

Userpilot

Blue ocean strategy has become an increasingly popular business framework over the past two decades, especially in the SaaS industry. It focuses on differentiation and low cost simultaneously to break the value-cost tradeoff. With globalization and advancing technology, products and services are becoming commoditized faster than ever.

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Unlocking the Power of the Blue Ocean Strategy: A Comprehensive Guide for SaaS Businesses [2023]

Userpilot

Blue ocean strategy has become an increasingly popular business framework over the past two decades, especially in the SaaS industry. It focuses on differentiation and low cost simultaneously to break the value-cost tradeoff. With globalization and advancing technology, products and services are becoming commoditized faster than ever.

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What 14 startup investors and advisors taught us about chasing (and finding) product-market fit

Mixpanel

There’s a reason, after all, that Y Combinator chose the slogan “make something people want” shortly after they were founded in 2005. For a SaaS company, he looks for things like “less than 2% monthly churn” (the flipside of retention), a “clear path to $100k MRR” (growth), and a “5% conversion rate from free to paid” (profitability).

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis (Guest essay by Li Jin)

Andrew Chen

After this analysis, I’m looking for really differentiated verticals of audio. As new tech platforms hit scale, we on the consumer team have been closely watching the future of media and the technology driving it — in all forms. Podcasts can be accessed from computers, mobile apps, or other media players. Thanks, Andrew.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis

Andrew Chen

After this analysis, I’m looking for really differentiated verticals of audio. As new tech platforms hit scale, we on the consumer team have been closely watching the future of media and the technology driving it — in all forms. Podcasts can be accessed from computers, mobile apps, or other media players. Thanks, Andrew.